Geography
11. Relate the five themes of geography to historic events (pg HT9: Location, Place, Regions, Movement, Interaction)
9. Identify on a map modern European places related to historic events being studied
10. Identify physical and cultural regions of Europe: Country and capitals, physical features and rivers

Summary of life before the French and Indian War (Pre-Test; Introduction PPT)
Chapter 1, Section 1: The Earliest Americans
Chapter 1, Section 2: Cultures of North America
Chapter 2, Section 2: Spain's Empire in the Americas
Chapter 2, Section 4: France and the Netherlands in North America
Chapter 3, Section 1: The First English Settlements
Chapter 3, Section 2: The New England Colonies (Geography)
Chapter 3, Section 3: The Middle Colonies (Geography)
Chapter 3, Section 4: The Southern Colonies (Geography)
Chapter 4, Section 2: Colonial Society (Life in the Colonies; Book: If You Lived In Colonial Times)
Chapter 4, Section 3: Slavery in the Colonies

12. Review the causes and effects of the French and Indian War
Chapter 5, Section 1: Trouble on the Frontier (French and Indian War)

13. Review the causes and effects of the American Revolutionary War
34. Illustrate how trade occurs when individuals, regions, and countries specialize in what they can produce at the lowest opportunity cost and how this causes both production and consumption to increase (imports/exports)
Chapter 5, Section 2: The Colonists Resist Tighter Control
Chapter 5, Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion
Chapter 5, Section 4: The War Begins
Chapter 6, Section 1: A Nation Declares Independence
Chapter 6, Section 3: The War Widens (African Americans in the War)
Chapter 6, Section 4: Winning Independence (Impact of the Revolution)

14. Identify major rights, responsibilities documented in the US Constitution
26. Explain the major significance of the following documents:
    • Constitution
Chapter 7, Section 1: Governing a New Nation

31. Define the three branches of the government and their functions
Chapter 7, Section 2: The Constitutional Convention (Three Branches of Government)

26. Explain the major significance of the following documents:
    • Bill of Rights
Chapter 7, Section 3: Debating the Constitution (Bill of Rights)

24. Describe how federal laws are made in the United States (pgs 258 - 259)
29. Define and identify the duties and responsibilities of citizenship (pgs 270 - 271)
30. Develop an understanding of Ohio's state and local government (pgs 268 - 269)
33. Identify the difference between state and federal government (Federalism, pg 257)

25. Recognize the country's development into a Republic
Chapter 8, Section 1: Washington Takes Office

28. Understand the need for and growth of political parties
Chapter 8, Section 2: The Birth of Political Parties

27. Identify the significance of landmark Supreme Court rulings:
    • Marbury vs. Madison
Chapter 9, Section 1: Marbury v. Madison

15. Identify the proceedings that influenced settlement and growth of the US (L.P., Cattle Trails, Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Gadsden Purchase)
Chapter 9, Section 2: The Louisiana Purchase

18. Examine the US government's treatment of Native Americans during the expansion years
Chapter 9, Section 3: A Time of Conflict (pg 325; Tecumseh and the Prophet / Map Master: Land Taken from Native Americans)

16. Identify the causes and outcomes of the War of 1812
Chapter 9, Section 4: The War of 1812

26. Explain the major significance of the following documents:
    • Monroe Doctrine
Chapter 10, Section 2: Dealing with Other Nations (Monroe Doctrine)

18. Examine the US government's treatment of Native Americans during the expansion years
Chapter 10, Section 4: Indian Removal

23. Explain the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, with emphasis on:
  • Scientific and Technological changes
  • The impact of the growth of population
  • Rural to Urban immigration
  • Growth of Industrial cities
  • European Immigration
  • The changing role of labor
  • Changes in living and working conditions (esp. women and children)
  • An understanding of the formation of modern European nations
  • Explore how a region's history, geography, and economics influences its view of other cultures and events (North and South)
Chapter 11, Section 1: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 11, Section 2: The North Transformed
Chapter 11, Section 3: The Plantation South

26. Explain the major significance of the following documents:
    • Missouri Compromise
Chapter 11, Section 4: The Challenges of Growth (Missouri Compromise)

20. Discuss the impact of social reform (Abolitionist Movement, Women's Rights)
Chapter 12, Section 2: The Fight Against Slavery
Chapter 12, Section 3: A Call for Women's Rights

23. Explain the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, with emphasis on:
    • The emergence of a middle class and impact on leisure, art, music, literature
Chapter 12, Section 4: American Literature and Arts

17. Develop and understand the western movement and pioneer life
16. Identify the causes and outcomes of Texas Independence, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish American War
6. Locate on a map or globe, modern day Mexico
7. Identify US territories that formerly belong to Mexico
8. Identify Mexico's major cities and physical features
19. Identify groups that immigrated to the United States during this period and their contributions to American culture (pg 466, Chinese Immigrants)
Chapter 13: Westward Expansion

21. Demonstrate knowledge of the causes, effects, and major events of the Civil War
26. Explain the major significance of the following documents:
    • Gettysburg Address
    • Emancipation Proclamation
    • Civil War Amendments
27. Identify the significance of landmark Supreme Court rulings:
    • Dred Scott Decision (pg 495)
Chapter 14: The Nation Divided
Chapter 15: The Civil War

22. Demonstrate an understanding of the Reconstruction Period
Chapter 16: The Reconstruction

27. Identify the significance of landmark Supreme Court rulings:
    • Plessy vs. Ferguson
Chapter 16, Section 3: The End of Reconstruction

Peace and Justice
1. Develop and understand economics as an aspect of Christian living
2. Identify work as a way to continue participation in God's act of creation
3. Identify the basic rights of labor, management
4. Give examples of how these rights must be exercised in a way that advances the common good
5. Recognize issues of economic justice involved in the distribution of wealth in the United States and the rest of the world

Government
32. Identify United States relationships to major countries and how these relationships affect foreign policy

Economics
35. Analyze the relationship between trade and transportation
36. Introduce the stock market, stock exchanges, shares, shareholders
37. Develop the ability to make wise economic choices as a consumer
38. Demonstrate knowledge of economic systems and the resulting distribution of wealth
39. Investigate and become familiar with career opportunities and areas of employment